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Re: euro symbol
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: euro symbol |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:50:44 +0200 |
> From: Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:56:50 +0200
>
> My rationale was that I want to write a clean way to use latin-9
> for Italian. But if the user works on a system where he is forced to
> use latin-1, at least what he gets is the currency symbol. A good
> fallback, in my opinion. But apparently that is not the right way to do
> it. Is there a right way?
I think the right way is to add an Italian latin-9 input method, and
have a key combination there to produce the Euro.
If by ``forced to use latin-1'' you mean that latin-9 fonts are not
available, such a user has no choice but to use the latin-1 input
method and insert and see the old latin-1 currency symbol.
> > euro symbol. That's why I think that change should be left alone.
>
> I disagree; I think we should remove this change. If you are not
> convinced, I guess Gerd and Richard will have to decide.
>
> Let me say that I value your opinion much. So if you are positive that
> this change is wrong, I'll remove it.
Yes, I'm quite positive.
> > However, the tilde was maybe an unfortunate choice. It certainly is
> > for Italian, as Italian keyboards do not have a tilde symbol.
>
> We could add "=E" there; I don't see any problems with that.
>
> Don't you think that the latin-1 input methods risk becoming too
> complex? Either we stick to the English keyboard layout (in which case
> =E should not be added) or we try to find a minimum common set of keys
> on all European keyboards, in which case the ~e should be dropped.
I cannot really be the judge of that, as I don't use Latin input
methods too much. You should be in a much better position to suggest
a solution.
However, why do we need a single solution for all latin-1 (or all
latin-9) methods? Cannot the Italian solution, say, be different from
the French one? The keyboard layouts in different countries differ,
so the input methods might differ as well, no?
> If we try to do both things, we risk ending up with practically
> every couple of keys generating one symbol or the other.
We certainly don't want that ;-) But if there are two possible
combinations for a small number of specific characters, and we have
difficulty to decide which one is better, I don't see why we cannot
have both, as an exception. A few input methods already have such
rare exceptions.
- euro symbol, Francesco Potorti`, 2001/10/25
- Re: euro symbol, Alan Shutko, 2001/10/25
- Re: euro symbol, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/26
- Re: euro symbol, Francesco Potorti`, 2001/10/26
- Re: euro symbol, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/26
- Re: euro symbol, Francesco Potorti`, 2001/10/26
- Re: euro symbol, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/26
- Re: euro symbol, Dave Love, 2001/10/29
- Re: euro symbol, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/30
- Re: euro symbol, Dave Love, 2001/10/26
- Re: euro symbol, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/26
Re: euro symbol, Dave Love, 2001/10/26